Such an aesthetic response is characteristic of the Net surfer for whom information gathering has become a way of life. Such a surfer is curious about everything and ready to spend every free moment visiting the latest hot spots on the Web. He or she enjoys the sheer range of possibilities. For such a person, just visiting as many sites as possible and keeping up on the cool ones is an end in itself. The qualitative distinction that staves off levelling for the aesthete is the distinction between those sites that are interesting and those that are boring, and, thanks to the Net, something interesting is always only a click away. Life consists in fighting off boredom by being a spectator at everything interesting in the universe and in communicating with everyoane else so inclined. Such a life produces what we would now call a postmodern self - a self that has no defining content or continuity but is open to all possibilities and to constantly taking on new roles.